General thoughts, the importance of legitimacy has been expressed for the SCOTUS. How much concern for legitimacy should/would the court consider for other branches in a decision?

The executive branch doesn’t need convincing

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Your meme could be considered either way without understanding intention.

Also the limits on what a private citizen could legally own is less than 100 years old (National Firearms Act of 1934).

@inwa Oh, that was what you meant. 😄 Sorry. It derives from a discussion of free will in which we ended up finding that if humans have free will, so does jellyfish. And since a free market is dependent on a free will, the sea would be a free market.

Probably posted before

It already is! Just ask Asean nations of the South China Sea! Lol

🙂

Expect the retraction from ABC News 🤣

And finally I'll end my rant on this with the fact that there are over 20,000 firearms regulations in the US, and the states. Many of which already allow for everything that the Gun Control proponents are asking for again. Except the one explicitly disallowed piece by previous legislation. a gun registry. I'm not going to go into huge detail on this because its super lengthy but the reason why can be found in researching gun control in pre-nazi Germany. The Germans forced registration of firearms on its citizens as a way to curb violence. It was then used by the Nazi's to confiscate the firearms from the Jews before throwing them into concentration camps.

Not true.

Germany under Gitler released the legislation on firearms.

They basically armed their people.

@IamFLAGG that’s true they sent a bunch of workers home after the ballots were processed. No one told the poll watchers to leave and the ballots in the video were already processed in front of observers and then counted per law

@AntiFish03 what does Germany have to do with modern day gun laws.

Has anybody seen the new clip of Biden, hopefully he's just high on pain medication? The DNC should have run Andrew Yang. I guess the DNC knew whoever they ran was likely to beat Trump, we couldn't possibly have someone with policies against the orthodoxy, so we have a near dead and political opportunist same old same old agenda. Hope it's different this time is not a viable plan.

You're right, I had to go double check myself, Nazi's did loosen ownership rules with the requirement of registration. in 1928, Then in 1938 the Jewish community was forbidden from owning firearms and any arms they did have were confiscated.

@busillis nothing would have been better from going to a black president to a white president to a Chinese or Jewish president. It would be like electing someone named Hussein after 9/11

I'm just talkin about policy.

Yang and sanders have interesting policies

I would vote for either

Idk

Can't have that

What would be trumps nick name for yang

China virus

The history of gun control is fraught with lots of repetitive stories. and the forgetting of history/ not learning history. and history is like that those that fail to learn from history are damned to repeat it. My point above involving Nazi Germany and Gun Control was that gun registrations have been fought against in the US because of that and similar history and the prior bad acts of other governments. In the hands of a fair and impartial government there is no issue. however most of us wouldn't be reading this chat if we didn't thing there were some issues in our government from time to time. and all it takes is one bad actor to taint it to cause real issues

There are lots of instances in history where gun control had little to no issue @AntiFish03

I was for Sanders before I voted Jill Stein.

I guess whatever

I forgot about Jill stein

What was her deal

wasn't Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump

@james j again all it takes is one person in the government to use information held by the government in bad faith to cause lots of issues

Full disclosure I didn't vote this year

And that is true whether its about firearms or anything else

@AntiFish03 depends on the government. Society should pull for a more transparent government where elected officials have to be open to investigations with little barrier to entry.

@busillis did you vote last year

Obama... “This is the most transparent administration in history,” Government will always try to say it's transparent.

@AntiFish03 I lived in germany for a while. Its a country that can trigger ones interest in history.

@AntiFish03 i mean legislate to make it more transparent. Not just let them say it is